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Hipster arcade
#285950 - 05/11/12 08:13 AM
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#285977 - 05/11/12 04:48 PM
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Beautiful 
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#285983 - 05/11/12 05:52 PM
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> http://imgur.com/a/0sCbn#0
I didn't know they had Instagram in 1968. 
But seriously, there is so much awesome in those pics it boggles the mind. I'd love to just step into the photo and work my way down that line of pins.
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#285984 - 05/11/12 06:01 PM
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Clearly I was born in the wrong era,look how elegant things were back then.Also how can you beat .25 hotdogs?
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#285985 - 05/11/12 06:24 PM
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> Also how can you beat .25 hotdogs?
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Oh for Pete's sake.
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#285986 - 05/11/12 06:29 PM
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#285987 - 05/11/12 06:32 PM
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> But seriously, there is so much awesome in those pics it boggles the mind. I'd love
> to just step into the photo and work my way down that line of pins.
No kidding. My jaw literally dropped when I saw those pins.
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#285988 - 05/11/12 06:55 PM
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LOL,I would be willing to bet hotdogs of that era were a little more pure then hot dogs today
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#285994 - 05/11/12 07:46 PM
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> Beautiful
I dig the '59 Olds 98 in that first shot, too.
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#286008 - 05/11/12 11:21 PM
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I like how one of the signs read
"No prizes of any kind or nature offered for high scores"
Very beautiful pictures 
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#286021 - 05/12/12 01:26 AM
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> I like how one of the signs read
> "No prizes of any kind or nature offered for high scores"
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> Very beautiful pictures
You knew that pinball was outlawed here in the states for a time? A very good movie about pinball is called "special when lit a pinball documentary". 
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#286025 - 05/12/12 02:32 AM
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Yeah I think it was even illegal to own a pinball machine in New York for some years, but I don't remember the specifics on that right now.
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Re: Hipster arcade
[Re: Breetai]
#286044 - 05/12/12 06:25 AM
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> > I like how one of the signs read
> > "No prizes of any kind or nature offered for high scores"
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> > Very beautiful pictures
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> You knew that pinball was outlawed here in the states for a time? A very good movie
> about pinball is called "special when lit a pinball documentary".
Very good documentary. I believe in the documentary pinball was illegal in 1938 and eventually made legal in 1976.
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#286052 - 05/12/12 07:05 AM
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> Very good documentary. I believe in the documentary pinball was illegal in 1938 and
> eventually made legal in 1976.
That was in NYC proper, I think most places lifted the ban sooner, and some never banned it at all. Nonetheless, for most of its existence, pinball was associated with gambling and shadiness.
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#286106 - 05/12/12 09:49 PM
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Quote:
LOL,I would be willing to bet hotdogs of that era were a little more pure then hot dogs today
They certainly were more pure than when Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle". Nowadays even the occasional human finger, arm or entire body will be much more free of those contaminants in hot dogs today thanks to HAACP. ;-)
Y'know that once scene when a criminal gets lowered into a meat grinder in "The Exterminator"? Something like that. Makes you want to think twice about what goes into authentic Italian sausage. Then again, Mafia justice sure is tasty! LOL!
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#286121 - 05/12/12 10:15 PM
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> Clearly I was born in the wrong era,look how elegant things were back then.Also how
> can you beat .25 hotdogs?
Elegant? All the machines literally look the same. The whole scene is plagued with yellow and red. Blech.
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#286133 - 05/12/12 11:24 PM
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Funny how skee ball hasn't changed much in 40+ years. 
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#286165 - 05/13/12 05:21 AM
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Ah the old pull leaver ones. Some you could pull them just right and get extra score and more tickets Course get caught doing that and you were out pdq...
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Re: Hipster arcade
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#286223 - 05/14/12 03:15 AM
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I can almost smell a place like that.
Wood polish, electric, old paint; all mixed together with the 5/10 food/snack counter. Where's that wayback machine at?
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